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Jhow you ccn csll us City News Desk 222-6600 Classified Gold Ads 222-5000 insurance Dept. 222-6470 Home Delivery 222-6500 Other Calls 222-6400 today's chuckls An eight-year-old's definition of thinking: When you keep your mouth shut and your head keeps talking to itself. Section Page 3 SECOND FRONT PAGE Saturday, January 9. 1982 111 1 L-v' i v- ,:1 i' Top Road Employes' Union Will Face Fight Together, they show promise By GERALD VOLGENAU Fraa Pratt Staff Writer They are silhouettes of bright promise. To the whispering scrunch-scrunch of skate blades, the two pink-cheeked ice dancers sweep across the chilled arena in a series of almost liquid swoops and flourishes.

In mirrored rhythm, his gliding steps match hers; her gracefully extended leg parallels his. She is Lynda Malek, of Wyandotte; he is Alexander Miller, of Grosse Pointe Woods. They are young. She is 15; he is 18. But together, they are one of hottest ice dance teams in the country, future Olympic David Davis: Sighted at hotel in Haiti.

Haitian X'X iic I i Y- I I 'l I k- i jbolice start By TOM HUNDLEY Fr Pratt Staff Wrllar State and Wayne County officials vowed Friday to fight a Searching surprise move by more than 70 highly paid County Road Commission executives to form a union that would protect their for Davis jobs from anticipated reforms under the new county charter. The new union, the Association of County Road Commission Administrators, was awarded a six-year contract Thursday by the Road Commission three-member gov By BILLY BOWLES FrM Prtsi Staff Writer erning board after a 15-minute closed David Richard Davis, the meeting. The union's members include all the Michigan farmer wanted on Road Commission's top managers, most charge of murdering his wife for her insurance money, is believed to be in Haiti, where Haitian police are searching for of whom earn more than $40,000 a year. The Road Commission's action has been widely interpreted as an attempt to insulate itself against the new county charter, which takes effect next year. Under the charter, adopted by voters THIS WEEK, the couple is practicing in the finger-numbing cold of Grosse Pointe Community Rink for their performance in the Juniors Division of the Midwest Region-: al Championship at St.

Clair Shores Civic Arena. Their likelihood of winning seems strong. The couple is fresh from a third place win In December at the Junior World Figure Skating Competition in Germany where they were edged out by two Russian couples. And at the St. Clair Shores event, Malek and Miller are ranked first after the compulsory figures segment of the competition.

The Grosse Pointe rink's tired record player continues to rasp out the blues classic "Frankie and Johnny," but the couple stops their dance. In that stiff-backed style peculiar to figure skaters, the two retreat in gliding steps to the arena edge. last November, Wayne County will elect its first county executive. It is likely that Sen. Hertel him, a U.S.

Embassy official there said Friday. Davis, 37, was sighted just before Christmas at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, the capital city of the Caribbean island republic, according to Rudolph Sza-bados, who was interviewed by telephone. Davis was with a woman, Szabados said. He de one of the executive's first targets would be the Road Commission, which has a long-standing reputation for cronyism, nepotism and fat salaries. State Sen.

John Hertel, D-Harper aWflpll clined to identify her. Woods, an unannounced candidate for county executive, called the move "a slap in the face of the taxpayers" and said he would seek a court order blocking the The Associated Press said the woman, identified only as i Free Photo by DAVID C. TURNLEY "Monica, flew to an unknown XJi contract. Hertel also said he would ask Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley Lynda Malek and Alexander Miller show their distinctive skating style. destination after leaving Davis.

to look into the contract legality. The report also said that Davis hired a crew to sail his 33-foot George Killeen Wayne County Commissioner George Lsailboat from Haiti to Provi- Kllleen, who held a joint press conference with Hertel, said he was NEW APPOINTEE OF MAYOR I denclales Island In the British Turk and Caicos Islands north of Haiti. prepared to begin removal proceedings against the road commissioners, a move that several other county commissioners said they were prepared to support. "It's evident to me that (the Road Commission's executives and Ecorse official indicted in vote fraud Charlotte Williams, another C.S. Embassy official in Port-au-Prince, said preparations for extradition have already managers) are trying to circumvent the intent of the charter These people got their jobs not as a result of their ability, but as a result of political connections," Killeen said.

begun to facilitate Davis' re- Police and Fire Commission. By TIM KISKA Free Prett Staff Writer turn to Michigan for trial if I- Haitian police find him and SAMUEL TURNER, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, in a letter Friday to Road Commission Chairman Michael Berry, warned that the new contract "may have serious legal defects and A member of the Ecorse Police and Fire him. He succeeded George Pleso, ousted from the commission in December by the Ecorse City Council. Pleso was removed after he was convicted of a misdemeanor arising from a family The county grand jury reportedly has subpenaed all the absentee ballots in the November Ecorse election. seriously interfere with the ability of the Road Commission to Commission was indicted Friday on charges of vote tampering In the municipal election last November.

DAVIS' stepfather, Theo fight, his attorney, John Gilhool, said. The remaining members of the commission have Arthur Jude, 44, appointed to the commission manage (its) affairs." The Road Commission's relationship to the rest of Wayne County government is ambiguous, a situation the new charter is supposed to correct. The Board of Commissioners appoints the three road commissioners, and, theoretically, the Road Commis by Mayor Harry J. White in December, was sued to have Pleso reinstated. dore Powell of DeWitt Township near Lansing, went to Haiti in December to get Davis' sailboat, said Szabados, the embassy's security officer.

JUDE WAS among three members of the arraigned Friday on charges of obstructing Glemma Hall, who was trying to cast an absentee ballot. The maximum penalty is five years in prison and a $1,000 fine. commission who voted Monday to disband a Szabados said he talked with special unit of the Police Department investigat ing municipal corruption. Powell by telephone after his arrival in Haiti, and that Powell said he had the neces- The indictment resulted from a continuing sion is subordinate to the board. In practice, critics say, the Road Commission is an autonomous enterprise that is accountable to no one.

DEADLINE PASSES nvestigatlon by the Michigan State Police and The unit was scrapped after the two-man unit refused to disclose its findings to the the Wayne County Organized Crime Task Force. sary documents to take possession of the boat. commission. The vote was 3-2. THE WAYNE County Citizens Grand Jury, Davis' whereabouts are un tee ballots had been tampered with.

Hall in particular claimed that a supporter of White, who was elected to a second term in November, arrived at her house to take her absentee ballot to city hall. The suit was filed in Wayne County Circuit Court. Hall said she believed something was wrong when White's representative left so quickly after she filled out the ballot that she was unable to retrieve it. Hall filed an affidavit with the suit Indicating she did not vote for White. A spokesman for the City Clerk's Office said Hall's ballot was never received.

White appointed Jude to the five-member which issued the indictment, has subpenaed all Jude, arraigned Friday before Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Michael Stacey, was not absentee votes from the November Ecorse mu- known, Szabados said. "As far as I know he is still somewhere In Haiti," Szabados said. He was seen In Port- available for comment. clpal election as well as certain Water Depart School layoffs will start this weekend ment records, sources close to the investigation say. Ben Rusch, Ecorse Police and Fire Commis Prince." sion chairman, said Friday the body had not decided whether to ask Jude to resign for the Hall and seven other residents sued the City Ecorse last November, claiming their absen See DAVIS, Page 5A period of litigation.

3 By GLEN MACNOW Fraa Pratt Education Wrlier Detroit School Board officials will start sending layoff notices Father of five confesses in court to about 1,100 employes this weekend after unions failed to meeta deadline for accepting wage concessions. Superintendent Arthur Jefferson had warned In a letter to KAgree with Reagan's draft? 1 union chiefs that unless workers agreed to the pay cuts by Friday, he would begin 2 prostitutes in '80 to President Reagan has decided to contin murdering I layoffs as indicated In his budget message. That message, delivered last month, ue the draft registration system he de- rSn-iiinroH no nrAclHontlol ranHriata ha. --ft indicated Detroit schools will face a $30 million deficit by June. The school board voted to eliminate that deficit by forcing chest and neck.

AQiifiA ha eatra "ttrA ttirn In lonnorAiic Knott's body, with a Mvorld." Do you agree with Reagan's the district's 20,000 employes to accept sweater tied around the neck, was found the next day on the' decision to continue drart registration wage and benefit cuts of up to 3.8 percent or layoffs of 1,100 workers. 20100 block of Littlefield, Donald Murphy: His confession is part of a deal with the Although Friday was the deadline for How you voted YES, 53 percent. COMMENTS: "I don't ilike It, but it's necessary" "Better the 12 unions to respond, most have yet to take a formal position. Those that have MURPHY THEN said he picked up Warren on Oct. 22 and took her to Prest, near By JOE SWICKARD Free Prasi Staff Writer Donald Murphy, after talking with his mother for an hour Friday, confessed to the 1980 murders of two prostitutes.

The confessions, before Recorder's Court Judge Edward M. Thomas, came In the second day of a hearing to determine if Murphy's earlier admissions to killing six women could be used in murder trials. Among the six women were three prostitutes whom David Payton, a former girls' basket- I taken a stand said they would reject Jefferson contract concessions. CHhan living In Russia" "We have to be prepared" "Every major country has a draft. Ours is nothing compared to Greenfield, where they had sex In his yellow Chrysler New EARLIER THIS week, the principals and ad Yorker.

Switzerland." ministrators union voted 13-1 against reopening Its contract. Few Murphy said he then forced the woman out of the car and kNO, 47 percent. COMMENTS: "Draft of its members face layoffs, however, because state tenure laws would allow them to move into teaching positions. Into a nearby vacant lot. not people" "I'll hide before I'll Also rejecting wage concessions were the Murphy said he reassured fight for Reagan" "Another broken Association of Educational Office Employes, which represents her, "I'm not going to hurt you, and then stabbed her and political promise.

Here we go again" "The world is dangerous because of secretaries, clerks and other office workers, and the 28-member Radio and Television Broadcast Engineers Local 58. beat her head with a pick ax gsttlng It sb sight Results of a vote by the district's largest union, the handle. member Detroit Federation of Teachers, is expected Tuesday. The DFT executive board previously voted 16-1 to reject reopening its warmongers like Reagan." Sound off Is non-scientific, reader opinion feature. Today's percentages are based on approximately 2,200 calls.

The pick ax handle was found by police in the trunk of Murphy's car. Hair samples contract, and union President John Elliott said he expects the To Insure accuracy, the Free Press will correct In this space any factual error which may occur In our news columns. ball coach at Highland Park High School, had previously confessed to killing. Murphy's courtroom confessions Friday were to the killings of Cecelia Knott, 24, and Cynthia Warren, 23. Their murders were among 18 similar slaylngs In 1980 in which young women were strangled or stabbed.

Eleven of the victims were known prostitutes Although Murphy has told police he killed six of the 11 prostitutes, he was charged only with the Warren and Knott slaylngs. MURPHY'S PLEA was part' of a bargain in which the state dropped a first-degree criminal sexuaAonduct charge, which carriCo life sentence, and recommended that Murphy be sentenced to 20 to 30 years In prison for each murder. Despite the recommendation from Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Richard Krisclunas, Murphy, 37, a father of five, could still be sentenced to life in prison. Judge Thomas, who ordered a psychiatric examination for Murphy, set Jan. 26 for sentencing.

Murphy, in court Friday, recounted the slaylngs in an even, level voice as family members waited In the hallway. He said he picked up Knott in his car on Nov. 6, 1980, when she solicited him for sex. They began a sexual act, Murphy said, and then he started stabbing her In ttii right chest. "Here( here, here and he said, pointing to "his own general membership to follow suit.

Waee and benefit cuts would cost the average Detroit teacher a Tomorrow's question about $874 a year. If teachers refuse the concessions, Jefferson said, up to 360 could lose their jobs. That could mean a layoff for -Z A New Jersey professor predicts that by every teacher hired after summer 1979. The 1 2 union leaders met Thursday to consider other proposals kthe end of this decade, TV viewers will A recent Item In Tlpoff may have left the impression that restaurants selected for inclusion In the book "Meet, Eat Enjoy Detroit," were paying varying fees for being Included found on the handle matched the hair of Bettye Rembert, one of the prostitutes Payton was charged with killing. THE HEARING this week had again focused attention on the official handling of the 1980 string of murders of prostitutes.

ft See MURPHY, Page 9A to cut tne zu.uuu-stuaent district aeiiai. R.see "full frontal nudity" on their favorite "Quite honestly, we've been unable to come up with any Jsoap operas (Story on Page 7D). Are you alternatives," said Elliott. "We've got a few damn good suggesting, hut nothlne that would savemuch monev. AlTYthe unions the book.

In fact, a set fee is ready for nudity on television? To vote YES To vote NO Call 961-3211 Call 961-4422 applied to an restaurants will probably keep bargaining until the last person is formally laid 1 off.".